The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-05-14

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| DR.. Marvin r. Vincent, of New York, has
in press with the Scribners new work which
will prove a most valuable aid to all readers
of the New Testament. Its title is "Word
Studies in the New Testament and its Chief
purpose will be to open to the English reader
and student the native force of the separate
words of the New Testament in their lexical
sense, their etymology, their history, their
infexion, and the peculiaritles of their usage
by different evangelists and apostles. The
work will occupy position almost unique in
its importance to biblical study.
The first book by Mr.. Thomas Nelson Page
is announced by the Scribners under the
title of "In Ole Virginia." 1t will consist of
a number of the authors most clever stories
descriptive of life in Virginia, including
'fMarse Chan" all of which are especially
strong in that faithful portraiture of South
ern scenes and people which has won for
Mr.. Page so wide an audience of readers. A
handsome cover has been designed for the
book by the Tiffany Art Company, of New
York.
The story of "John Noman's" life, by
Charles Henry Beckett, is soon to be issued
by Cassell g. Company, is the product of
virile imagination. The characters have
been drawn with firm hand, AMI the marked
individuality which they possess and hold to
the end shows Mr.. Beckett to be a literary
workman of unusual power. The interest of
the reader is enlisted from the very begin
ming, and il grows more absorbing as the Pc
rusal progresses, over the chain of incidents
through which the plot is developed. The
reader will hardly arrive at full concep-
ton of the broader plan of the novel, until
he has finished it. When he comes to full |
realization of the bearing of John Noman's |
story upon the profoundest problems of hu- |
man life, of mans coming and going, and |
of his buffeting with the fates. We are con-
fident that Mr.. Becketts story will take its
place among the notable works of fiction of |
the year.
The strongest article in the May Harper
(which is notably rich number) is upon
ture," by one of the rising lights among |
Southern writers, Charles W. Coleman, Jr. |
The article shows what remarkable develop |
ment of literary genius has taken place
in the South lately. Mr.. Coleman says: |
" II has been reserved for the score or more |
of recent writer's, several of whom have !
already achieved a brilliant success, to |
firmly establish worthy and characteristic
Southern literature. For the most part they |
are younger men and women who remember |
the old, but have come to maturity in the |
new, era; and the sheaves they have gathered |
in the luxuriant harvest overspreading the |
fields about their own dwellings. What Ca
BILE saw and heard while connected with mer-
camille establishments in New Orleans; what |
Richard Malcolm Johnston remembers of
the scenes and people of middle Georgia,
where he was born, and the best years of bis
life we're spent; and Miss Murfree's observa-
tons during her residence among the noun
tains of Eastern Tennessee-furnished the
for all that is best in their work.
these and yet more recent writ
ers the profession of letters holds secure
and elevated position among other profes
sions in the South. Twelve engraved por-
traits with autographs accompany the text
G. W. Gable, Grace King, R. M. Johnston,
Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus), Thom-
as N. Page, Charles Egbert Craddock, M. G.
Frances Courtenay Baylor, Julia
Amelie Rives, Lafcadio Hearn, and
Robert Barns Wilson. 1t is noticeable that |
most of these writer's have won public recog- |
milton by short stories alone, and two or
three of them have an enviable reputation
resting upon single Published work.